Package casa.agentCom

The package (agentCom = "Agent Communications") handles connections between agents. The class Channel is an abstraction of a communication channel.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Channel	Abstract Channel to be associated with a URLDescriptor.
InfiniteReadWriteByteBufferInterface	A simple "infinite" byte buffer designed to be for a writer to write byte[]s to and a read to read what the writer has written.
SocketServerInterface	An abstract socket server.

Class Summary

Class	Description
DirectChannel	A "Channel" that writes directly to the "remote" agent's event queue.
InfiniteReadWriteByteBuffer	A simple "infinite" byte buffer designed to be for a writer to write byte[]s to and a read to read what the writer has written.
SocketServerTCPIP	This class is designed to listen on a socket on behalf of one or more agents.
SocketTest	JUnit test for to see if agents can communiate between processes.
TCPChannel	This class is the TCP/IP specialization of the Channel class.
URLAndInt
URLDescriptor	URLDescriptor strings are of the form:
URLDescriptorTest	JUnit test to check URLDescriptor contract.
URLset	Set of URLs.

Package casa.agentCom Description

The package (agentCom = "Agent Communications") handles connections between agents. The class Channel is an abstraction of a communication channel. Objects of subclasses of Channel are embedded in URLDescriptors. DirectChannel (<:Channel) is a "channel" to a local agent in the same process. TCPChannel (<:Channel) is TCP/IP socket channel, which works with SocketChannelGlobal to do two-way remote communication.

The following diagram illustrates a TCP/IP communication channel (red), and a local (in-process) channel (green).

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